Early Origins of the Collingbourn family

The surname Collingbourn was first found in Wiltshire at Collingbourne Ducis or Collingbourne Abbas, villages and parishes that date back to 903 where there were listed as Colengaburnam. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village was named Colingeburne and probably meant "stream of the family or followers of a man called Col or Cola" from the Old English personal name + burna. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) At that time, the lands were held by Croc and Fulford from Winchester Abbey. The addition of the Latin "ducis" and "abbas" denote the possession of the Dukes of Lancaster as in (Latin ducis, "of the duke.")

Early History of the Collingbourn family

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Early Notables of the Collingbourn family (pre 1700)

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Migration of the Collingbourn family to the New World and Oceana

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..